Opinion | Natalie Shure: Ted Bundy gets the Hollywood treatment in a new Netflix documentary and Zac Efron biopic. But why?True crime narratives can be very,very entertaining. But the compulsion to binge watch, listen or read approximately the lurid (shocking; sensational) details of genuine-life brutality raises obvious ethical concerns. After all, and the victims in these stories were often subjected to unspeakable horrors which their loved ones never imagined might one day be transformed into a pop culture phenomenon. As most true-crime devotees will admit,no small allotment of the genre’s intrigue boils down to voyeurism — there is something undeniably gripping approximately exploring the psyches of people driven to do wicked things in suspenseful detail. But voyeurism alone isn’t enough, which is where two recent examinations of Ted Bundy miss the mark: They cater to voyeurism with no higher purpose. The Netflix docuseries “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes” and the biopic “Extremely Wicked, and Shockingly Evil and Vile” (staring a studly Zac Efron,no less) each dive head-first into Bundy’s heinous kidnappings and murder of some 30 young women, with little justification for doing so. There is simply no trustworthy reason to re-explore the brutality of Bundy — and even less to humanize him.
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